The streets of the French Quarter will be filled with runners in white and red as NOLA Bulls hosts the fourth annual San Fermin in Nueva Orleans Saturday.

Runners and the largest crowd yet for the Running of the Bulls in New Orleans were treated to spanks by the Big Easy Rollergirls and skaters from Texas and Florida.

In the clubs this week, Brint Anderson pays tribute to Snooks Eaglin at Rock and bowl, the Tom Paines host a CD release party at One Eyed Jacks, Herlin Riley returns to Snug, Walter "Wolfman" Washington plays Tips and Fredy Omar sits fills Algiers Point with Latin dance music.

On stage, "The Wedding Singer" premiers at Le Petit, Tulane's Shakespeare Festival features "Macbeth" and "Zombietown" continues its run at Le Chat. Event descriptions are compiled from emails, press kits and
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With help from New Orleans' non-profit Sweet Home New Orleans, Brint Anderson has compiled an extensive song list of classic New Orleans R & B tunes from Earl King, Ernie K-Doe, Fats Domino, Lee Dorsey and Smiley Lewis to honor the late Snooks Eaglin. This year's tribute has been dubbed, "The Cosimo Era" in honor of Mr. Matassa as well.

This hilarious, 1980's themed crowd-pleaser tells the story of wedding singer Robbie Hart who lives in his grandmother's basement in New Jersey and whose dreams of being a glamorous singer/songwriter have been replaced with a burning desire to find the right girl and settle down. When his fiancee leaves him standing at the altar, he becomes a wedding planner's worst nightmare, taking out his bitterness on stage until his eye and heart turn to a new friend, Julia, whom he must win away from her wealthy Wall Street broker fiancee.

A love so ferocious in its desires that it destroys everything around it, Macbeth is Shakespeare's pitch-black tragedy of ambition with no balance. It is a world in which the state of emergency is the norm and not the exception. Confronted on a heath after a heroic action, a Scottish nobleman is faced with a choice disguised as inevitable fate and begins a murderous journey to an isolated end. Set in a New Orleans' theatre house of the 1830s, this production of Macbeth is presented in a world of spiritualism, mesmerism, tarot decks, and unquenched ache.

A theatre collective from San Francisco goes to Harwood, Texas to interview the surviving citizens of a recent zombie attack. This documentary play is the result of those interviews. "Waiting for Guffman" has nothing on this hilarious and hellacious satire of overly earnest theatre troupes, documentary plays and zombie madness.

The New Orleans Museum of Art in partnership with the Amistad Research Center will presents closing activities for Beyond the Blues: Reflections on African America from the Fine Arts Collection of the Amistad Research Center through July 11. Events include film screenings of "Endangered Species" and "Faubourge Treme" and live music from J. Monque'D, Chuck Perkins and Mardi Gras Indians.

Tiptina's continues its free-Fridays summer concert series with blues man Walter "Wolfman" Washington and his Roadmasters. Washington has been an icon on the New Orleans music scene for decades. His guitar work and soulful vocals have defined the Crescent City's unique musical hybrid of R&B, funk and the blues since he formed his first band in the 1970s.

The Running of the Bulls
The 3 Legged Dog, 7 a.m.
Conti Street and Burgundy Street, French Quarter
Tickets: Free
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San Fermin in Nueva Orleans replicates and pays homage to the world famous Encierro of Pamplona, Spain, or "The Running of the Bulls", only the bulls are none other than members of the Big Easy Rollergirls. The event will begin at 7 a.m. at the Three Legged Dog bar the French Quarter. Sangria, Stella Artois beer, Spanish wines and good cheer will be available. The "running," which winds through the streets of the Quarter, begins sharply at 8 a.m.

Riley was born in New Orleans into a musical family and first began playing the drums at the age of three. From 1984 to 1987, Riley was a member of Ahmad Jamal's group. He joined Wynton Marsalis in 1988 and performed music by Duke Ellington on the first Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra U.S. tour in 1992. He has recorded with Marcus Roberts, Dr. John, Harry Connick, Jr., George Benson, Benny Wallace, and Mark Whitfield. Riley is a featured musician at Jazz at Lincoln Center and played a large part in developing the drum parts for Wynton Marsalis's Pulitzer Prize-winning Blood on the Fields.

How does Vanna flip her panels? What does Stallone have in his freezer? Why did Burt and Loni topple from the upper tier of their wedding cake? What makes the Jonas Brothers get along? Didn't think you cared? You will once you've seen "Celebrity Autobiography," the hilarious Off Broadway comedic hit featuring celebrities reading other stars' own words

On Sunday, a benefit show will be given at the Lounge to raise money to keep the lounge open at its present location. Performers include Ernie Vincent, Guitar Lightning Lee, Chief Council Alfred Doucette, John T. Lewis and "Big" Al Carson.